Smart soft materials are envisioned to be the building blocks of the next generation of
advanced devices and digitally augmented technologies. In this context, liquid crystals (LCs) …

Liquid crystal is a state of matter being intermediate between solid and liquid. Liquid crystal
materials exhibit both orientational order and fluidity. While liquid crystals have long been …

Bacteria are among the oldest and most abundant species on Earth. Bacteria successfully
colonize diverse habitats and play a significant role in the oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen …

We review the literature on swimming in complex fluids. A classification is proposed by
comparing the length-and timescales of a swimmer with those of nearby obstacles …

Morphogenesis of living systems involves topological shape transformations which are
highly unusual in the inanimate world. Here, we demonstrate that a droplet of a nematic …

Featured Application Nanomaterial-doped liquid crystals. Abstract The research field of
liquid crystals and their applications is recently changing from being largely focused on …

Using dynamic light scattering, we study orientational fluctuation modes in the nematic
phase of a self-assembled lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal (LCLC) disodium cromoglycate …

Active colloids in liquid crystals (ACLCs) are an active matter with qualitatively new facets of
behavior as compared to active matter that becomes isotropic when relaxed into an …

Liquid crystals (LCs) are widely known for their use in liquid crystal displays (LCDs). Indeed,
LCDs represent one of the most successful technologies developed to date using a …

Liquid crystals (LCs) are fluids within which molecules exhibit long-range orientational
order, leading to anisotropic properties such as optical birefringence and curvature elasticity …